Exam 14: Urban Life

William Julius Wilson has observed that in the Washington Park area of Chicago during the early 1950s, most African American adults were working and supporting their families. By the 1990s, he reports, what share of these residents was unemployed?

If you were a critic of urban renewal, you would say that it had failed because it

What is the term for settlements, common in poor nations, where people have constructed makeshift homes from whatever materials they can find, and where most people do not have even clean water and sewerage?

Elizabeth believes that cities suffer from the effects of social inequality, requiring reform efforts led by our government. Her political viewpoint would be described as

Oscar Newman studied public housing and concluded that crime was much more common in

If you were to study the decentralization of the urban population leading to rapid, unplanned, and low-density development at the edge of expanding urban areas, you would be investigating

What percentage of the U.S. population lives in an urban area?

In 2012, the poverty rate was highest in which of the following areas of the country?

The movement of businesses from the central city to centers some distance from the old downtowns has created

The description of the Smokey Mountain section of Manila in the Philippines leads us to conclude that

Explain what we learn about urban life from Ferdinand Tönnies, Emile Durkheim, Louis Wirth, and Georg Simmel. Based on what you have learned, can you envision ways to make our cities better?

Which early U.S. sociologist defined the city as a settlement with a large, dense, socially diverse population?

The public began to link industrial cities with social problems by about

In the United States, the industrial metropolis reached its peak population by the end of the

Tara lives in the Dallas suburbs and commutes downtown to work every day. Like the typical suburbanite living near a major metropolitan area, Tara spends at least thirty minutes

Urban areas beyond the political boundaries of cities are referred to as

Within which of the following types of social organization did Tönnies claim that the typical person pays only passing attention to the welfare of the community, but mostly "looks out for number one?"

When the United States declared independence in 1776, what percentage of the population lived in cities?

In 1900, more than one-third of New Yorkers lived in small apartments with few or no windows and shared bathrooms. These apartments were called

In the late 1980s, Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton examined large cities across the United States and documented the existence of a pattern they called